Harrisburg Mayor Eric Papenfuse appears to be onto something with his concerns about the National Civil War Museum, one of the crown jewels of the Reed Administration that never turned out to be the success its developers touted. If indeed state funds intended for city development somehow found an underground railroad to the museum, it indicates two things: (1) it was obvious from Point A the museum was a shaky proposition at best, and (2) the Reed team was willing to short the already suffering city in order to prop up this fantasy. Press on, book man.

So this Cliven Bundy character, who became a right-wing hero by grazing his cows on federal property and dodging the bill, is having a hard time keeping his reputation inflated. Just after media and his armed supporters began to lose interest and wander off, Bundy remounted the soapbox and declared it was only by divine intervention and Bundy's leadership that the confrontation at his Bunkerville, Nev., ranch stopped short of a bloodbath. Maybe so, but it's obvious that wild man Bundy was big-talking about his relationship with the Creator, considering he had fought the issue for 20 years, with no noticeable assistance from above.

Fed up with neglected potholes in her Allison Hill neighborhood, enterprising 9-year-old Janice Baldwin seized a citizen's initiative and patched up some of the bone-jarring street cavities herself. Calls to mind the little Dutch boy attempting to stop the leak in the dike with his finger while the burghers were occupied at backgammon.

Prospective residents might find the circular configuration of the suggested Hershey Silo condominiums a little unsettling, but at least they wouldn't have to change the air freshener.

Too bad the Philadelphia-area man who murdered his wife and then told Facebook "She was cheating on me. I won," couldn't be around to appreciate the irony of his situation. Unfortunately, he killed his own self before realizing that though his wife's soul may have to account for a minor marital indiscretion, his is doomed to be eternally spanked by the Devil.

Sharpshooter awards go to the European Space Agency. Ten years ago it launched the Rosetta spacecraft and this week it met its intended target, a comet answering to the name C-G, after a journey of four billion miles. Rosetta is designed to send down a lander that will attach itself to the comet's surface and begin moving data on deep-space mysteries -- such as where water comes from -- before riding off into the sun like a space cowboy.